Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.

Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.